Exhibition pays homage to genius, writes Dionne Christian.

The fine city of Toulouse, on the river Garonne, has an air of Italy about it. It is immensely proud of its Capitole, the long neo-classical

A Grahame Sydney painting delivered 19 years after it was commissioned is expected to reward its owner's patience by fetching more than $100,000 .

Naked and in a revealing stars and stripes one piece, Melania and Hillary have been emblazoned on the walls of Melbourne's streets.

Inhotim is an open-air art gallery in the midst of about 2000ha of botanic gardens, a two-hour drive from Belo Horizonte, a two-hour flight from Rio.

The world of author and illustrator Dr Seuss is one in which nothing and everything makes sense.

An image of a hydrangea scores big for photographer Emma Bass, writes Dionne Christian.

You can ask Scribe about his new play, but veer off topic and you could be in trouble.

Rachel Bache is awestruck by the lights, the music, the street food and the magic of Vivid Sydney.

Imagine a 254-year-old musical instrument made of wood. It was built in London and probably had a passing acquaintance with Haydn, among others.

The Auckland Art Gallery is showing a small exhibition of lithographs by Honore Daumier that acts as a lively adjunct to the current Auckland Festival of Photography.

A giant, headless statue of Rihanna has appeared as part of an art series which mixes celebrity culture with mythology.

The handbrake is set to be pulled on the Real Art Roadshow which has visited schools around NZ for 10 years - unless someone new grabs the wheel.

New Zealand artist Maurice Bennett crafted unique portraits of celebrities from pieces of toast.

Abstract art is showing new vitality. It can be Classical or Romantic, poised and precise, or energetic and expressionistic.

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America includes art from the late 1960s to the present created by artists from eight different countries.

Kiwi artists are flocking to Australia this weekend for the opening of Vivid Sydney, where their work will be on show alongside artists from around the world.

Creative New Zealand spent $650,000 to ensure the country is well-represented.

A few words with documentary film-maker Justin Webster.

What is it like to live, as many of us in the Southern Hemisphere do, with our eyes forever on a different part of the world?

Five years in the making, Seven Magic Mountains is the work of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, inspired by the natural "hoodoo" rock formations in southwestern America.

Stephie Key this week graduates from the exclusive Paris College of Art, and her dad will make a flying visit to be there for the big day.

In a sense, it all began with a question from a small boy: "If we're going to catch the bus into Auckland Library, please can we go to the art gallery, too?"

It is not all abstraction; there is still painting about people.

Auckland Art Fair will show the best in contemporary art from New Zealand and the wider Pacific.

A few words with art curator Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel.

It might more commonly be called the City of Sails, but to sociologist and historian Scott Hamilton Auckland is "a city of text", with multiple stories waiting to be told.